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Happy 5th Birthday Firefox! Mozilla Browser Keeps Growing

by Jay Garrett on November 10, 2009

mozilla-firefoxIt’s hard to believe that 5 years has flown by.

But it was back in 2004 when the not-for-profit Mozilla, then with 12 employees and a handful of volunteers decided to take on Microsoft in the battle of the browsers.

Flash-forward to now and that same company has a 23% worldwide market share and has even overtaken IE usage in more than a dozen countries.

Firefox is to be thanked for the likes of tabbed browsing, integrated search engines and browser add-ons. Bless its little furry paws!


President of Mozilla Europe,Tristan Nitot, said to Sky News that the company’s initial mission to ensure browser “freedom” remained the same and added: “applications like a browser are a set of instructions put together by a developer. It does a lot on your behalf and you lose a lot by delegating this. It’s extremely important to remain in control.”

Don’t take this as ‘job done’ for Mozilla and Firefox.

Over the last couple of months another 30 million users have joined in the Firefox joy and Mozilla also has plans to slip into your pocket.

The new new mobile browser is still in Beta at the moment but be ready to see Fennec as often as you see Firefox starting next year :)

If you haven’t used this fabby browser go treat yourself for FREE – Click Here!

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Google Chrome OS Now Downloadable

by Jay Garrett on October 28, 2009

chromeI use Google Chrome as my default browser pretty much these days along with Firefox but this nearly slipped past me.

Chrome OS is now available for download albeit in beta.

Here’s the official announcement:

New Chrome OS 0.4.223 beta is available now!

Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser.

The project aim is to provide a lightweight Linux distribution for the best web browsing experience.

Featured software in Chrome OS:
GNOME 2.24 desktop environment
Google Chrome 4.0.223 web browser
Google Picasa 2.7 photo manager New!
OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite
GIMP 2.6 image editor
Flash Player 10.0 plugin
and much more!

System requirements of Chrome OS:
Processor: Intel Pentium, Xeon or newer; AMD Duron, Athlon, Sempron, Opteron or newer
RAM: min. 256 MB
Hard disk: min. 1 GB
Graphics card: supports most modern graphics cards

Are you already ahead of me and tested it out? Let me know how it works out for you :)

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Alex the Android eBook has Two Screens and Smartphone Capabilities

October 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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Everyone say hello to Alex the eBook reader.
This lovely, and friendly sounding gadget comes courtesy of Spring Design.
This eBook reader not only has the usual black and white e-Ink screen it has another display that features full colour niceness!
Alex also throws in full web browsing over Wi-Fi and 3G (or EVDO/CDMA in America).
I love the [...]

Asus Bring Dual-Screened EeeBook EeeReader in Time to Un-Kindle Christmas

September 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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You peoples that catch-up with GadgetyNews right here will remember that dual panel laptop by Asus that was rumoured to become their EeeReader.
In June Asus vice chairman, Jonathan Tsang did say that the company had an Asus eBook device, as well as a games machine “better than the Wii” all ready to go – but [...]

Sony Ericsson Jalou – A Gem of a Fashion Phone

August 12, 2009 Click to read more →
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Sony Ericsson has unveiled its latest fashion phone.
The angular clamshell has been named Jalou.
Looking not too disimilar to the Bao concept I spotted on the interwebs a few days ago the Jalou is just 73mm long (or “shorter than your favourite lipstick” as SE puts it).
The body looks like a precious gem that will certainly [...]